Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (May 20, 2023)

12 comments

1. > 夏の間ずっとそうやって具合悪いって言って、医者に行くでもなく運動するでもなく、だらだら過ごしていたじゃない。

   Context: Someone is complaining of being sick and the other person replies this.

   Why does it say: だらだら過ごしていたじゃない。

   I’m thinking that means “You weren’t being lazy as the time was passing” or something like that, but it should say the opposite.

   The rest I think says “The whole summer you say you are feeling bad, (but) don’t go to the doctor or exercise”

2. I read this and was wondering about this はねと that I’m seeing here, what does that part mean?

   > 低血圧はねと説明すれば、「だいだいのはさ」と始め、あなたは健康そのものだからわからないでしょねと言えば「だいたいおれはさ」と始めるに決まっている。

   Also I’m having some trouble with this so I’ll give my attempt and maybe someone can help me out:

   If you explain that there is low blood pressure, he’ll start in with “It’s hereditary”, you have good health so you don’t understand probably. He’ll definitely start in with “I’m generally [in good health]”

3. What’s the simple difference between janai desu vs arimasen?

4. So, after learning Hiragana, does anyone else have problems writing the letter J now?

5. when do u use みたいで　and when do you use みたいに. like when describing “like”. they both seem to be used in the middle of sentences

6. Are there any other joyo kanji like 協、品 which contains 3 components of a character and is not simplified?

7. what’s the difference between が知っている and を知っている?

8. How in the world do I learn Japanese?

   Ok so like I’ve learnt some Japanese from Komi Can’t Communicate ( r/Komi_san ) like Good Morning and stuff, but I don’t know how to learn anything like Kanji or anything… anywhere good to start?
   Thanks!
   -xendyex
   p.s I’m autistic, so if that changes anything…

9. I was approached by a native speaker at work who asked how my Japanese was going, and whilst I can’t say I covered myself in glory (managed a couple of relevant sentences and then mostly talked about what I was learning in terms of kanji I found interesting etc) they did say that I knew a lot more than they were expecting and that they would be happy for us to chat more. I was soooooo happy.

10. I watched an episode of Yokai watch and there’s a character who says “matatabi” to control a monster cat. There’s also a scene in persona 5 where a cat is obsessing over a treasure that he found and the main character says “matatabi janai”. I see that matatabi means catnip. But how is it used in Japanese?

11. Is there a place to practice verbs conjugation? I keep forgetting them.

12. How do I say jump in Japanese besides “ジアンプ” (janpu)? I find many different ways but they don’t quite seem to translate to jump:

    tobu – to fly

    haneru – to bounch

    chouyaku – leap

    What is a common way to express the action of jumping?